How To Build A Skyscraper | Super Structures | Spark

[@13minutestomidnight]

Despite being over 20 years old, this is a very intelligent documentary. The questions raised here are even more relevant now than they were then.

[@sherlockrodney5841]

Jp

[@alexklapes9035]

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[@funkmachine9094]

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[@Mari-eb9iy]

Info for all our American friends - look at 51:40, guys. MCMXCVII, means 1997. This is the year of production of this movie. Greetings from Europe :)

[@ChiRedWhiteBlue]

It always amazes me how obsessed the rest of the world is with us Americans. We appreciate the attention 😁

[@joetke]

the video format 4:3 is PRETTY SUFFICIENT to guess the date it was shot!

[@EvlEgle]

+Mari considering Us Americans are the ones that popularized the dating of video productions in roman numerals. specifically hollywood studios, thanks for the explanation, we are well aware.

[@morsecodereviews1553]

Oh, I didn't know. Thanks!

[@karmicobsession1636]

@@EvlEgle yea sure

[@theoutlier35134]

This documentary is a classic. Very well made

[@CopperCityPatriot]

Uhmmm? Ya viewers gotta keep-in-mind that the "Date," of the video simply means the Upload date. The date it has been put on KZbin. Which is really annoying. The video itself could be a few years old a couple decades old. The date, does not mean the video itself was just created. FYI.

[@GrooveFederation]

the twin towers are still intact in the video so there's the clue right there, not from this century (in internet years), lol

[@davidorazine8239]

@@GrooveFederation It's so old skyscrapers don't collapse when a plane hits them (7:53)

[@matthewsharp7170]

@@GrooveFederation oiiiik0

[@troyleenewgent9013]

@WHITE POWER the 90s was the greatest decade of all time i dont even see how its a debate. Some will say the 80s but i think the 90s really kicked ass

[@jaymcaaa]

@@troyleenewgent9013 for me 79 to 96 funny as was born 79 but holding your own buisness then was easyer as most family members had own buisness and music and all was better my opinon to 1996 well i thought anyway biggest blockbuster movies my opinion 85 to about 93 but then could dpend age as people in there 50s like the 1970s

[@harrickvharrick3957]

Broadcast in the year 2000 which was when they built Japan Railways' Central towers! Great informative program, I had never spent a single thought on such things as water pressure in that type of buildings!

[@teimourvaliev6192]

Fantastic documentary. Well made and genuinely educational, no modern cringy overdramatic narration.

[@morsecodereviews1553]

Well that was a fun little trip down memory lane.

[@ChiRedWhiteBlue]

Narrator in late 90s: "In New York, to avoid future collisions, airplanes were simply rerouted" Me in post 9/11 world: 😳

[@Lunch_box]

The narrator is fucking luke Skywalker

[@garybevis8691]

@@Lunch_box Mark Hamill, aka Luke...lol

[@13minutestomidnight]

When an architect said "the world trade centre towers are designed to withstand a mid-air plane crash from the biggest plane of its day" ...You just don't TELL people that. Humans are so stupid and crazy that you should just never give them ideas (as a species).. .

[@how2drawdinosaurs715]

F you Luke

[@patrickbrookings]

It's kinda ironic and sad to watch an old documentary like this. So much has changed. The NY twin towers are no longer there, the Burj Khalifa has now been the tallest building in the world for some 10 years. But no doubt taller ones will come.

[@taimalik1110]

That's not ironic bro! Irony doesn't mean that the passage of time brings about change around the world and more development in other regions. Irony means something that is totally unexpected that happens in a given situation. An example of irony would be building skyscrapers out of timber, which is a material that is completely unexpected to be used for superstructures (name of the documentary here) and in the age of climate change, wood is more of a sustainable material for a structure that seems rather unsustainable, given the carbon emissions involved with producing cement and steel to build tall skyscrapers.

[@whofandb]

The vast majority of deaths in the Kobe quake was because traditional style tiled roofed homes collapsed and gas fires started. More modern structures faired somewhat better but it was still a bad quake.

[@Rangerman69420]

That plain crashing into the empire state building was some crazy foreshadowing 😳

[@gilzor9376]

lol . . . . just plane crazy! ;)

[@Joe254KE]

It seems the designers of Burj Khalifa just copied Frank Lloyd Wright's 1956 mile-high design proposal. Dude must have been a genius!

[@nguyen3545]

No, these two building are very different in shape and size.

[@cedricmayfield7058]

R.I.P to the great architect César Pelli !

[@jejc1001]

Awesome Luke Skywalker is doing the narration.

[@jeffreysendall3971]

Was not expecting the legendary Mark Hamill to narrate this random documentary

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Regulating what can go into a building by occupants could add to safety. Put a marble bathtub or swimming pool up high could mean that the upper levels will react more slowly to what's happening down below. SNAP!

[@konman5550]

Wow this documentary is so old that it’s almost nostalgic. Plus, narrated by Luke Skywalker himself

[@giridharanvsrinivasan8994]

Loved the narration

[@hristoivanov2562]

I think that modern building is way more fragile and complicated than old one ( from the time of the pyramids for example) or even sooner

[@williamhaynes7089]

empire state building built-in 13 months, it would take 10 years to build now.

[@flourishomotola5306]

Why

[@khagemann7462]

@@flourishomotola5306 mainly because of costs but more because of safety and materials.

[@NoNopeAndNo]

Also extreme feminists protesting topless below for no apparent reason blocking access 🤷‍♂️

[@smf2072]

10 years ?! Ok.... LOL !

[@psikeyhackr6914]

Try finding data on the distributions of steel and concrete in any skyscraper. How many tons of steel and tons of concrete on each level?

[@armandwilliams6495]

Got a lot from this. So are there any plans for Los Angeles? Are these buildings going to be safe if there is a strong earthquake?

[@AnaruBickford]

Narrator = Mark Hamill

[@Mannesravani806]

So nice 😍🥰💖

[@Anglo-EgyptianMan]

36:09 "You must understand that the towers were designed for the impacting of the largest airplane of its time the intercontinental 707 aircraft right into the building"

[@mikekincaid7412]

What I’m hearing here is that all of these engineers are just keeping there fingers crossed that nothing really bad happens

[@NoNopeAndNo]

Great Doco, please include production year of video in title please

[@Lunch_box]

Mark Hamill THE NARRATOR IS LUKE SKYWALKER

[@EvlEgle]

Really? Sounds like the joker to me.

[@morsecodereviews1553]

@@EvlEgle LOL I see what you did there.

[@morsecodereviews1553]

I was hoping to see this in the comments =)

[@annazfker2028]

7:53 NO WAY ! NFW ! BUT . . . THE TWIN TOWERS FELL DOWN FAST WHIT JUST ONE PLANE.

[@paulsuprono7225]

I'm watching old news. MAJOR UPDATES, are/should be, in order !

[@FatGuyInaTruck]

Video says the Petronas Towers are "being built" yet they were completed in 1996.... Oh, and 90's era Windows graphics. Also, the JR Central Towers were completed in 2000, and is currently the EIGHTH tallest building in Japan... Yet this video was uploaded TODAY, September 9th, 2019

[@mikelawrencesoler3257]

They just found the lost tape after 3 decades... 😂

[@alb4150]

It's a re upload of an old documentary

[@mahablues.dir.6059]

Spak good news

[@salehelsileni3665]

😍😍👌👍

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Burj Khalifa has a lot of rebar. Vertical rebar.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Iron work is effective WHEN joints are secure and angles are right angles.

[@_Breakdown]

36:06 - - (Les Robertson) Engineers inadvertently designed the twin towers to behave like chimneys - - sucking smoke up from the basement to try to expel it from the top. 37:36 - - the ‘93 explosion knocked the emergency fire + sprinkler system in the building offline 37:54 - - MGM Grand hotel fire of 1977 (the HVAC system circulated smoke into rooms throughout the building)

[@gilzor9376]

Breakdown, go ahead and give it to me , . . . . . . . . There is no sense in pretending . . . . 'They' said all there is to say . . . . why repeat it?

[@unclekaz7556]

Yooo gotta tell the guys about this one

[@montrealcanada3915]

Oho I tired from the hard construction

[@hossywoof]

Good doc.....frightening the eng said the WTC was built to withstand the biggest plane flying into it. And we all know what happened on that fateful day

[@Dakidd-pb9zc]

How skinny and tall does a superstructure have to be before it becomes unsafe!! Looks like strong enough gust of wind would tilt and then tumble that building with very little effort!!

[@mikes7639]

Almost unwatchable with all the ads

[@NoNopeAndNo]

Ads = the failed foundation of KZbin

[@ithirtmean]

lol at 7:25 that's not the Empire State Building its the Chanin Building by the Chrysler💀

[@damagician2704]

Mark Hamill!

[@chefhudsonbernard]

36:08 can they be any stupider!! I can't even watch this without getting anxiety. This documentary is from 1997.

[@RichieD_21]

The towers would made to withstand an impact from the largest planes OF ITS TIME. Keyword "of its time". And it was.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Translators would've been cheaper. But what the heck, let's get this right.

[@lilspam1]

No one commented on the fact that the narrator is luke skywalker or voice of Batman

[@how2drawdinosaurs715]

3000 ft tall

[@nic..7193]

at 17:40, am i the only one who thinks that guy sounds like Alan Rickman?

[@tonchi74]

36:08 "THE GIANT CHIMNEYS".......

[@joshdaly2343]

What does he say at 28:36?

[@woody41165]

He was talking about how much vibration can people in offices tolerate and be comfortable with, but at that time you mention he says `At what point do we need someone at the elevator vestibule at the top handing out dramamine`. Dramamine is motion sickness medication used to treat nausea, vomiting and dizziness caused by motion sickness.

[@paulsuprono7225]

This needs to be updated, 'Terrorist Era' . . . all the greatest in technology can be compromised by an independant terrorist event . . . Twin Towers, NYC being the classic example.

[@Lunch_box]

The only example you mean??, Did you actually understand what you were posting or did you just want to be part of an ignorant racist conversation?? Yea shut your communist mouth and get back in your welfare line yah hippie

[@Rangerman69420]

@@Lunch_box What does Racism, communism and culture have to do with his comment? Did you actually understand what you were posting? I agree with him I'd love to see an updated documentary that explores how significantly Skyscraper technology has changed and yes many changes are because of 9/11 like it or not.

[@NoNopeAndNo]

Dismantling my bunk-bed ASAP 🙄

[@oneilmatthewmartin7383]

A underground scarper them a biuld

[@williamgehrig4368]

This NEW video is over 20 years old. ????????

[@jeffcollins1097]

100th Comment. whoop whoop

[@supertrucky6695]

Ladies and Gentlemen, here is your host... Luke Skywalker!

[@kksebii]

bro you are so funny hah

[@supertrucky6695]

@@kksebii I thought when I was watching this... That sound like Mark Hamil and sure enough there was his name as the announcer.

[@DakkogiRauru23]

Mark Hamill?

[@alpteknbaser7773]

🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

the 3 kiddos just split 10k for rachys whereabouts they can buy there own go kart

[@user-gn1ic9ww8q]

did u tell your mom the sheriff promoted her to LT. of detective bureau

[@Youngg_Ronnie]

I will build an r shaped building

[@anderbeau]

Omg how Old is this video?! 😂

[@knockhello2604]

Expensive. Cannot make a return.

[@nguyen3545]

Too much 9/11 foreshadowing in this video

[@Zekesaxman]

ISH JUSH AMSHING HOW HIGH MY BLSUHPLESSEHER ISH WE ARE ON THE CUTTING ESH OF TEKNOROGY

[@oneilmatthewmartin7383]

Me see them a biuld something a halfway tree

[@charkaan9923]

As an engineer the problem I see in every video is lac of using concrete vibrators to illuminate air bubbles

[@thedevilwuster]

That is not why vibration is used. Vibration is used to consolidate concrete around structural reinforcing.

[@kosycat1]

Step one: Don't

[@charkaan9923]

Vibrators in concrete would avoid failure engineer are paper people but they need to have field knowledge, if no one enforced concrete vibrators during construction it’s an avious cover up

[@thedevilwuster]

You just don't give up the stupid do you?

[@alangarland8571]

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[@TheDavidlloydjones]

The stupidity and random error which infest this shoddy documentary reach their most amusing, perhaps, with the discussion of the bridge of the Petronas Towers at the half-hour mark: its supports are tubular, not spherical.

[@alwayslive7460]

why is no one speaking of hempcrete? 40% lighter & just as, if not stronger than standard cocrete

[@thedevilwuster]

No it's not. The maximum compressive strength ever achieved by hempcrete was 507.6 psi. That's around a 16th of the strength of a basic six sack concrete mix. I sure hope you haven't built anything structural with hempcrete. That would be absolutely irresponsible and morally repugnant if you represented hempcrete as being "just as strong or stronger than standard cocrete" while selling it to someone. If anything it would be under the table because no engineer in his right mind would stamp that.

[@whitejack4901]

The piquant meat maternally book because veterinarian basally dance around a strong tent. medical, known search

[@charkaan9923]

Then they wonder why it fails

[@charkaan9923]

If no supervisor during construction enforce vibrators in concrete then it’s a failure

[@thedevilwuster]

What credentials do you hold that compels you to keep making erroneous statements regarding vibratory consolidation, may I ask?

[@Hzec]

This "documentary" just constantly repeats the same shit said for 50 minutes

[@charleslindberghmcgill4715]

Maybe you should get the "shit" out of your ears then and actually watch the video.

[@NoNopeAndNo]

👂➡️💩

[@khanky08]

Plane crashing into the WTC 1 & 2 - gone too soon. Empire State Building: 🥱 say what now?